>>12697596fuck off idiot
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-plastic-america-global-crisisLast year, the equivalent of 68,000 shipping containers of American plastic recycling were exported from the US to developing countries that mismanage more than 70% of their own plastic waste.
The newest hotspots for handling US plastic recycling are some of the world’s poorest countries, including Bangladesh, Laos, Ethiopia and Senegal, offering cheap labor and limited environmental regulation.
In some places, like Turkey, a surge in foreign waste shipments is disrupting efforts to handle locally generated plastics.
With these nations overwhelmed, thousands of tons of waste plastic are stranded at home in the US, as we reveal in our story later this week.
